In the NBA, whenever the word "tactics" is mentioned, it always gives people a sense of superiority.

For example, when complimenting Rick Carlisle, he always says a master tactician! And when it comes to disparaging a coach, it's often the case that his tactics are described as X**D or a chaotic tactical system.

For the layman who lacks NBA common sense, basketball tactics do seem to be very mysterious, always seem to be cloudy, and teams with poor records seem to be in X**D, and there are not many tactics to speak of.

After reading the tactical notes given to him by Rick Carlisle, Chen Zhi found that tactics are not mysterious at all!

All tactics are dominated by a certain basketball concept and evolved with a combination of various basic basketball skills, and the dominant basketball concept can be said to be a strategy, and the evolution of the running position in the game is a specific tactic.

For example, Zen master Phil Jackson relied on the "triangle attack" tactic that he relied on as a coach to win 11 championships! There is also a relevant introduction and understanding in Rick Carlisle's notes, and after reading his introduction to the triangle offense, Chen Zhi feels that he has a deep understanding of the triangle offense.

The triangle offense, as the name suggests, is to form a triangle on one side of the court, with a center on the inside, a point guard in the corner, and a small forward with the ball, and a super-division and power forward on the other side.

The formation of the triangle is to use space and distance, which can actually be regarded as the strategy of the triangle offense, which is actually reflected in many basketball systems, and the characteristics of the triangle offense are its special use of space and distance, and its important purpose is to let the superstar not easily fall into the bag when he holds the ball and plays alone.

So the triangle offensive tactics seem to be designed for superstars, especially superquantile players, such as the basketball first who got 6 championship rings in the triangle offensive system, and is also the basketball first percentile player, Jordan, and Kobe, who got 5 rings in the triangle offensive system, is the second percentile in history.

But this is actually a misunderstanding! The real purpose of the triangle attack is to allow the weaker non-supergiants on the pitch to play a bigger role. Ball-handlers are always a natural way to attract a lot of attention from defenders, and in a triangle attack, role players who perform off-ball cuts and off-ball screens increase their threat to a higher level.

And when the triangle attack ends with a superstar single, it often means that the tactics have not been successful in the previous session, and this is not entirely the case. Even at this time, supergiants are still a huge advantage, after all, basketball itself is a game where the offensive ceiling is higher than the defense, and there are countless ways for superstars to finish in one-on-one.

Jordan and Kobe Bryant are recognized as the two most inexplicable stars in singles, on the one hand, they both have superb back skills and a variety of scoring methods, and on the other hand, the superstar singles in the triangle offensive system have honed their singles skills again and again, just like the mystery of archery skills.

The triangle offensive tactics flourished more than Zen master Phil Jackson, who was founded by the elder Winter, but the real origin was another man, John Wooden, who led UCLA, or UCLA, to 10 NC+ championships, including a legendary coach who won seven in a row.

One of the two most important awards in American college basketball is the John Wooden Award named after him, and the other is the Naismith Award, he is the inventor of basketball, and the basketball coach who can be compared to the inventor of basketball shows his greatness!

At the very beginning, the triangle offense was the second of the ten basketball principles he set for UCLA, there should be at least two points of contact on one side of the court, and the triangle should be constantly formed between the three people.

Abdul-Jabbar, who is famous in NBA history, played under Coach John Wooden during the UCLA period, Abdul-Jabbar held the ball with his back to his back, and other teammates constantly formed a triangle with him on the court through air cuts and off-ball covers, that is, the point of contact, Abdul-Jabbar can be said to play the role of both axis and singles superstar.

Some people say that the Lakers OK combination was not a triangle offensive tactic during the three-game championship period, but in fact, the Lakers OK's triangle offensive tactics are the closest to the original triangle offensive tactics.

O'Neal's role is equivalent to Abdul-Jabbar during the UCLA period, but his offensive level in the low post is really the highest in history, and he is even more domineering than Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, so many times it seems that O'Neal himself ended the offense and did not play a role as an axis.

And the Lakers' OK combination's triangle offense therefore looks like a simple combination of inside and outside, and there is no triangle offense. But this statement is a formality, and essentially, or strategically, the idea of a triangle offense has always been running through the Lakers.

Especially after the first year of the OK combination, in the next two championships, O'Neal gradually made more axial balls, because it was probably during that period that O'Neal really understood the essence of the triangle attack, or he did become lazy and wanted to save a little less effort on the court while still staying healthy.

Therefore, O'Neill is still the axis, but the strength of this axis is too strong, so strong that a tactical system does not seem to exist, which is why O'Neill dares to claim to be the first in history! The only one who can be tied with Joe's gang leader in terms of dominance is probably O'Neill.

The old Winter's triangle offense is developed on the basis of this principle, so the triangle offense is really not to serve the superstar and let the superstar play alone, because the superstar single does not need a triangle offense at all, and the rest of the team can all stand separately and take away the defender, but the kind of singles without triangle offensive thinking is the so-called brute force.

The superstar of the triangle offense is actually the most tired guy on the court, and everyone who has played knows that the easiest offense is the catch-and-shoot jumper, and there is nothing more physically demanding than a single attack, especially when your opponent has a very strong defensive end.

The presence of single superstars such as Abdul-Jabbar, O'Neal, Jordan, and Kobe Bryant can make those players who cut and cover off the ball more threatening, which is the goal of the triangle offense. It's just that successful singles will indeed make the star look more shining, but it does take strength to play singles, and without outstanding strength, don't want to be a superstar in singles in that triangle attack.

Obviously, the scoring efficiency of role players through screens and air cuts is actually much higher than that of superstar singles, and the difference between 1v1 and 1v0 is that all basketball players understand that when facing a super defense that can't open the situation, superstars are usually more efficient than role players as the final endpoint.

As a team as a whole, being able to score more efficiently will naturally lead to more victories, so the triangle attack is the only tactic that can bring three consecutive championships since the 80s!

And the reason why many people will use OK combinations is not a triangle offensive tactic, in addition to O'Neal's super crushing strength, there is another reason.

Jordan's two triple-winning periods were also triangular offenses, and their triangular offenses were obviously not the same as the Lakers' triangular offenses, and they became famous earlier!

Batman Pippen is the one who does the axis most frequently in the Bulls, so it is the small forward who does the axis, which seems to have become one of the symbols of the triangle offense, and Jordan seems to be a superstar outside the triangle offense, which is obviously not the same thing as the Lakers' triangle offense.

In fact, five people on the basketball court can be used as the axis of the triangle offense, the difference is whether there is the ability to score with the ball with the back alone, whether there is a better passing vision and ability, and the players with these two excellent abilities are the excellent axis of the triangle offense, such as center O'Neal, big forward Gasol, small forward Pippen, and the score Jordan and Kobe Bryant have all been the axis of the triangle strategy.

Jordan was reluctant to play the triangle offensive strategy at the beginning, which stemmed from his strong desire to attack, as the axis of the triangle offense, it was inevitable to distribute the ball to players who seemed to have better chances, but those players were naturally not as good as himself in Jordan's opinion, and he obviously believed in his offense more than those players.

One of the great things about Zen master Phil Jackson is that as a head coach, he is good at handling the relationship with superstars, and in the end, Jordan, the big killer of back-to-back offense, doesn't need to be the axis of the team, Pippen, who is also excellent in back-to-back skills, does the job.

Whether Joe wants to or not, when he is attacking with his back in the low post, the triangle offensive strategy is running, and there will always be two teammates who form a triangle with him. Moreover, being able to get the basketball close to the basket for a single game is already a victory in itself, not to mention the dominance of the Qiao gang leader in the low post is obvious to all. After winning the championship, Joe's gang leader recognized the triangle offensive tactics, and naturally chose to distribute the ball to his teammates when he encountered a trap in the low post, and the triangle offensive tactics were implemented in the Bulls.

In fact, the triangle offense played by Jordan Bulls is a variant, and Jordan's Bulls team does not have O'Neal and Abdul-Jabbar who are very suitable for being axis interior players.

The Zen master slightly evolved the specific tactics to form the Bull's triangle attack, in which the principle of the triangle attack and a lot of air cuts and off-ball screens remained unchanged. The great thing about a coach is that he can make tactical adjustments to the team according to the personnel and make it more relevant to the team.

The triangle offense is a great tactic, but now more and more people are attacking it, and the loss of the triangle offense in the Knicks is the main reason.

So much so that now, even in the eyes of some, in the establishment of the Bulls dynasty and the Lakers dynasty, the Zen master's triangle attack is a dispensable tactic.

The triangle offense, a tactic that requires a slowdown to play at a tempo, may be a bit out of touch with the times in today's era of small-ball tactics, but in the era of Jordan and O'Neal, the triangle offense tactics have undoubtedly made great achievements.

As the Zen master said, "Who is the one who doubts the triangular attack?" They don't have 11 championship rings! ”

The defeat of the triangle strategy in the New York Knicks, on the one hand, is a problem with the execution of the strategy, after all, the players are very resistant to the triangle offense, and the Knicks coaches have not been able to achieve the compatibility between stars and tactics.

On the other hand, after the great success of the triangle tactic in the Bulls and Lakers, almost all excellent coaches have studied this tactic to some extent, and even learned and transformed it, such as the old man Popovich of the Spurs, such as James's Heat period, there have also been variants of the triangle offense, the spatial concept of the triangle offense and a large number of off-ball runs can be said to have been popularized in the league, and the simple triangle offense does have many advantages.

Carlisle's tactical notes naturally not only have the triangle offense, but also a large number of tactics, but many of the tactical runs are different, but they are still the same in principle, and basic basketball skills such as pick-and-roll, screen, air cut, and off-ball running coexist in all tactics.

After reading Coach Carlisle's tactical notes, Chen Zhi felt that tactics are dead, people are alive, there is no certain tactic to win the championship, only players and teams who can win the championship. Tactics that suit the team's personnel and players who can execute tactics well, both of which are difficult to win a championship in the NBA, where there are so many strong players.

At the same time, what touched Chen Zhi the most was that no matter what kind of tactical system, the role of stars is indispensable, especially in the performance of key moments, such as the Bulls' triangle offensive tactics, in the last few minutes of the game, often to give Jordan the opportunity to create an easy single in the low post without being trapped.

Fundamentally speaking, the value of a truly powerful star is still above the system, which is probably why NBA players are far more valuable than coaches, and the salary of a head coach is only about the same as that of a middle-class player.

In many cases, the greatest value of tactics is to allow players to score easily, ensure the physical strength and health of the stars, and in the playoffs and finals, where the defensive intensity is super high, and the tactics are often cracked by the defense, and then the superstars will solve the battle.

This is where the triangle offensive tactics are better than other tactics, and the entire regular season is preparing for the hero ball of the playoffs, which is why the teams under Sloan, the master of blocking, have lost against Phil Jackson's triangle offensive tactics. Compared with the superstar's unsolved singles, the blocking and dismantling is much easier to crack.

No matter what year's playoffs, it is a stage where the stars decide the real victory or defeat by the heroes, and it is precisely because of this that many teams that rotate about 10 people in the regular season often only have about 8 players in the playoffs, especially in key games, the number of rotations is mostly very small.

In the face of the Houston Rockets, Rick Carlisle handpicked Chen to use the UCLA cut-in tactics, which are different from the triangle offense, which is an extreme suppression of the point guard, to some extent, it is Chen to the core point guard to decide the outcome of the game.

Then in front of the beard, see how far you can go! Chen Zhi smiled confidently, I hope that the bearded face will not be too ugly by then!